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Catalogue description Colonial Office: Natal Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 179 |
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| Title: | Colonial Office: Natal Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains original correspondence relating to Natal. |
| Date: | 1846-1910 |
| Arrangement: |
Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the Governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations), and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). With some case volumes. Each volume with a contents list, or a précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. |
| Related material: |
For correspondence relating to Zululand before 1898 see CO 427 For correspondence after 1910 see CO 551 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 256 volume(s) |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
For registers to this correspondence see CO 326 under 'Cape of Good Hope' before 1849, CO 357 after 1849. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1844 Natal was annexed to Cape Colony, from which it was separated in 1856. In 1910 it became a province of the Union of South Africa. Zululand was administered through Natal from 1887, and annexed to Natal in 1897. |
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